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$3 per month is very costly?
by geowwy 8y ago
$3 per month is very costly?
- SuperNinKenDo 8y agoFor some people, yeah.
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- majidazimi 8y agoComparing Office 365, then yes it is very very costly. Such services should earn money at scale. The basic plan should cost around 5$/year.
- mrmondo 8y agoIn my 6+ years of being forced to use Office 365 for one of my accounts - it is a flaming POS. Plagued by poor performance, regular (unexplained!) outages and has series issues with data consistency and don’t even get me started on it’s terrible rules system.
- majidazimi 8y agoLet's not forget that with slightly more money that Fastmail or Protonmail are asking for just one mailbox, MSFT is offering you a whole office suit plus 1TB of storage. Your criticism regarding functionality might be true, but there is no reason for competitors to charge more. I'm just a simple email user -- 50 emails per week -- and I don't keep them in my inbox. As soon as I'm done with them, I delete them. A simple 50MB inbox is sufficient for me. I just need an ad-less mail box. For me anything beyond 5$/year is expensive as hell.
- vbezhenar 8y agoI'm using my own domain, so it's $5 per month. Considering that I'm using VPS for less than $1 per month, that price seems absurdly high. I would consider paid mail for $5/year with 25GB storage and fastmail features, otherwise free mail looks much better.
- geowwy 8y agoEven $5 is not bad, I’m guessing most HN readers wouldn’t miss $5 a month. Anyway services like Facebook extract around that amount from you via targeted ads, I’m happy to pay if it allows to me to isolate myself from that a bit.
- jaxtellerSoA 8y ago> VPS for less than $1 per month What kind of VPS are you getting for less than $1 a month?
- vbezhenar 8y ago256 MB/25GB/IPv4. It was black friday deal, but you can get similar price from arubacloud AFAIK, probably even with better specs.